64 thoughts on “Bright spark”

By the way, I’ve been told that horses somehow end up with names that offer the contrary impression of their behaviour – “Lightening” will probably be a slug, whereas a horse called “Slowcoach” will probably be quite fast…

Oh Lady Fi, I love horses! There is something so magnificent about them!
“could almost see my skeleton as I vibrated like a cartoon character”…
Well that is terrifying (but you wrote it in a funny way!) ha! 😉

Hahaha, oh no you poor thing!!! Very cool you give your kids the chance to ride! Just being around such impressive animals helps give them confidence and compassion just to name a few things! Wonderful!!
Have a great weekend and watch out for those electric fences from now on!!

If you do what you did at horse ranch in Japan, the magnitude of the voltage is less than a half:) Do you wanna give it a try??? I hope you did not have a camera with you when you got an electric shock!
Actually I had the same experience when we lived in Umeå. I dropped something at home and stupidly trying to grab it blindly under the table and touched AC plug accidentally with my right hand. Then my LEFT hand went up by itself!!!

Oooh – I had to giggle although I know that jolt must have been unnerving. Glad you’re OK. My bro-in-law and my sister were here for a visit and he wondered about all the electric fences in the cow pastures. He was skeptical even after I showed him the battery sitting in the back of the pasture and the size of the cows. He tested it and in a high-pitched voice said “yeah – it’s got a little juice.”

You had a ? re: our destination on my blog: we’ll be East of San Francisco and husband commuting into the City. No real winter’s there – have to admit, I’ll miss a real Winter season (some of the time).

Good grief Lady, that is going above and beyond the call of duty — even when it’s all for your daughter! And (in retrospect) it makes for a very funny experience. (I’ve never met a daughter yet who wasn’t embarrassed sometimes by her mother…but when she grows up yours will look back on it and laugh (and laugh)….

Not where I thought this post was going! 🙂 I’m enjoying your sense of humor about the incident. I’ve lived places where asking the new neighbor to grab the fence and hold it is considered the official welcome to the neighborhood.

This brought back some fun memories playing with the fence. We sometimes made a chain holding hands and then the 1st person touched the fence. The one at the end got zapped worse.Clapping hands make mine run off, or a tap on the rump.

ha, ha! We have electric fence, too, and occasionally I unintentionally “test” it. The horses are very careful of it, though. They must be smarter than I am.
Glad your daughter is able to get out to a farm to ride. That’s how I started out when I was about her size, straddling a friendly pony out in a field.